ARION MASQUERADE BALL; Arrangements This Year More Elaboborate Than Ever. PAGEANTRY DEVOTED TO FAIRY TALES Six Mammoth Floats Representing Well-Known Nursery Stories and Prince Carnival and His Suite.

The Arion masquerade hall, which will be held Feb. 11, at the Madison Square Garden, will not only keep pace with its predecessors in point of grandeur, but bids fair to win for itself the highest place in the series for spectacular features. The different committees and the designers have been busy for weeks, and say they will eclipse all former efforts.

February 02, 1896

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